Anime, FFXI, and stuff

Tuesday is weight morning (eh, weight lifting, not weight checking), and since I got the new (heavier) weights, I decided to use those the whole time. (Last week I did two sets with the lighter ones then one with the heavier, then the next time two with the heavier and one with the lighter.) It was too much though, and I was just a weak girly-girl and couldn't finish. Bah. Last night I had a muscle pull/pain in my arm, so I probably should have skipped this morning or used the lighter set, but... I wanted to use the heavier ones! Feels like I really worked after using them. Oh well, Thursday will be weights morning again, so I'll give it another try then.

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I was thinking that perhaps if I watched the One Piece dub I might like the series. I tried watching it subbed two or three times, but it never did anything but annoy the hell out of me. I hated the art style, hated the voices, and the characters made me want to quit watching anime for good. But I had felt mostly the same way about Trigun (other than not hating the art style), but grew to love it when watching it dubbed, so I thought the same thing might happen with One Piece. Nope. Seeing the series still makes me want to never watch anything else that has even passed through Japan.

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FFXI was surprisingly busy last night, but good. Though I don't need money, I like farming in the Canyon, so I decided to go there and farm while digging for bones. Once my bag got to 50/60, I decided to cut through the Maze to get to Bubu and outpost teleport home. (I know it's not a short cut, but I could hit digging points as I ran through.) Turns out I had even more fun in the Maze than I do in the Canyon! (If not for the undead, the Maze would be perfect for me -- fights are a little challenging but not deadly. But the undead are the problem -- since I have so little defense, my HP falls fast. Undead snack on your brains when your HP is low, and I have few brains to spare!)

So anyway, once my bag was full I ran back to Sandy, emptied it and grabbed more picks, then headed back out. (By this point it was late enough that I usually wouldn't have gone back out, but I was having fun so I figured I'd go mine till I had to log off, not returning back to town for the night.)

So dig, dig, dig, kill scorps, dig, kill scorps... eventually it got late enough that I needed to get somewhere I could log off, so I went to the highest level area so I could exit out into Bubu. I had seen many chests while bone digging, and then I passed some key mobs, so figured hey, why not kill a couple, maybe get a key, then could open a chest and end the night on a really great note?

Ha ha ha. Instead of getting a key, I got a lesson: The pets of beastmen BSTs link with others in the area. So when I pulled a BST with a bat pet into a tunnel to kill it, the 10 or so other bats followed. I could have taken the goblin BST and its pet on their own, but so many bats? My HP fell fast. Kicking myself, I was prepared to accept my death as punishment for my "stupidity", but then I was saved! A nice nice WHM came by and kept tossing cures onto me, till I had all the things dead. I thanked her over and over, then gave her some crystal clusters I had gotten off an ele. She said I didn't have to give her anything, but she saved me from a death so I wanted to. :)

For the rest of the night, I kicked myself over being "stupid" and not knowing how the gob's pet would link with other mobs... but then I realized it wasn't really me being stupid. If a PC BST uses a bat pet to attack some non-bat mob, there's no linking there, right? Wild bats don't link in and help your bat pet. So why would a BST of a different species follow different rules? All BSTs should follow the same rules, no matter their species. So instead of endlessly kicking myself for being stupid, I'll just call this a lesson learned. I don't agree that beastman BSTs should play by different rules, but now I know they do, and I didn't have to pay a death to learn that. That's good enough.

Anime, FFXI, and stuff

Tuesday is weight morning (eh, weight lifting, not weight checking), and since I got the new (heavier) weights, I decided to use those the whole time. (Last week I did two sets with the lighter ones then one with the heavier, then the next time two with the heavier and one with the lighter.) It was too much though, and I was just a weak girly-girl and couldn't finish. Bah. Last night I had a muscle pull/pain in my arm, so I probably should have skipped this morning or used the lighter set, but... I wanted to use the heavier ones! Feels like I really worked after using them. Oh well, Thursday will be weights morning again, so I'll give it another try then.

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I was thinking that perhaps if I watched the One Piece dub I might like the series. I tried watching it subbed two or three times, but it never did anything but annoy the hell out of me. I hated the art style, hated the voices, and the characters made me want to quit watching anime for good. But I had felt mostly the same way about Trigun (other than not hating the art style), but grew to love it when watching it dubbed, so I thought the same thing might happen with One Piece. Nope. Seeing the series still makes me want to never watch anything else that has even passed through Japan.

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FFXI was surprisingly busy last night, but good. Though I don't need money, I like farming in the Canyon, so I decided to go there and farm while digging for bones. Once my bag got to 50/60, I decided to cut through the Maze to get to Bubu and outpost teleport home. (I know it's not a short cut, but I could hit digging points as I ran through.) Turns out I had even more fun in the Maze than I do in the Canyon! (If not for the undead, the Maze would be perfect for me -- fights are a little challenging but not deadly. But the undead are the problem -- since I have so little defense, my HP falls fast. Undead snack on your brains when your HP is low, and I have few brains to spare!)

So anyway, once my bag was full I ran back to Sandy, emptied it and grabbed more picks, then headed back out. (By this point it was late enough that I usually wouldn't have gone back out, but I was having fun so I figured I'd go mine till I had to log off, not returning back to town for the night.)

So dig, dig, dig, kill scorps, dig, kill scorps... eventually it got late enough that I needed to get somewhere I could log off, so I went to the highest level area so I could exit out into Bubu. I had seen many chests while bone digging, and then I passed some key mobs, so figured hey, why not kill a couple, maybe get a key, then could open a chest and end the night on a really great note?

Ha ha ha. Instead of getting a key, I got a lesson: The pets of beastmen BSTs link with others in the area. So when I pulled a BST with a bat pet into a tunnel to kill it, the 10 or so other bats followed. I could have taken the goblin BST and its pet on their own, but so many bats? My HP fell fast. Kicking myself, I was prepared to accept my death as punishment for my "stupidity", but then I was saved! A nice nice WHM came by and kept tossing cures onto me, till I had all the things dead. I thanked her over and over, then gave her some crystal clusters I had gotten off an ele. She said I didn't have to give her anything, but she saved me from a death so I wanted to. :)

For the rest of the night, I kicked myself over being "stupid" and not knowing how the gob's pet would link with other mobs... but then I realized it wasn't really me being stupid. If a PC BST uses a bat pet to attack some non-bat mob, there's no linking there, right? Wild bats don't link in and help your bat pet. So why would a BST of a different species follow different rules? All BSTs should follow the same rules, no matter their species. So instead of endlessly kicking myself for being stupid, I'll just call this a lesson learned. I don't agree that beastman BSTs should play by different rules, but now I know they do, and I didn't have to pay a death to learn that. That's good enough.